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Eric Berry's cancer battle inspires other patients

Eric Berry’s return to the Chiefs less than eight months after being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma is offering inspiration to people all over the Kansas City metropolitan area whose lives have been touched by cancer.

Eric Berry’s return to the Chiefs less than eight months after being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma is offering inspiration to people all over the Kansas City metropolitan area whose lives have been touched by cancer.

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Updated: 10:23 PM CDT Jul 29, 2015

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WEBVTT EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS. APRIL 30 -- IT WAS MY SISTER'S BIRTHDAY. ELI: THE DAY ETCHED IN HIS MEMORY. THE MOMENT CORNELIUS TERRELL WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER. WHEN IT HITS YOU, IT REALLY HITS YOU. IT'S NOT JUST A -- IT'S A LIFE CHANGING EVENT. ELI: INITIALLY IT WAS BLEAK -- STAGE IV LYMPHOMA. I'M A SINGER AND PHOTOGRAPHER. ELI: SO CORNELIUS POURED HIMSELF INTO HIS MUSIC CAREER. ♪ WHEN IT HAPPENS TO YOU, AND YOU ARE LIVING IT, AND GOING THROUGH CHEMO, IT SINKS IN. ELI: AS HE UNDERGOES RIGOUROUS CHEMO, CORNELIUS IS DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM CHIEFS SAFETY ERIC BERRY, WHO RECENTLY OVERCAME THE EXACT SAME CANCER. IT'S UNBELIEVABLE TO ME TO KNOW THAT HE IS GOING THROUGH THE SAME THING, OR HE WENT THROUGH THE SAME THING THAT I'M GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW. ELI: AND IT'S NOT JUST CORNELIUS. FROM TACKLING ON SUNDAY TO TOUCHING THE LIVES OF CANCER PATIENTS, DOCTORS SAY ERIC BERRY CAN USE HIS BATTLE FOR GREATER GOOD. HE HAS A GREAT ATTITUDE. HE IS GOING TO CARRY THE FLAG OF HOPE FOR LOTS AND LOTS OF PEOPLE ACROSS THIS COUNTY. THIS IS CRAZY. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS DAY FOR ME, FOR WHEN I GET TO SAY, HEY, I'M FULL BILL OF HEALTH, I'M CLEAN. ELI: ONE CHIEFS PLAYER TAKING HIS FIGHT TO A WHOLE NEW PLAYING FIELD AND PROVIDING PLENTY TO CHEER ABOUT ALONG THE WAY.

Eric Berry's cancer battle inspires other patients

Eric Berry’s return to the Chiefs less than eight months after being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma is offering inspiration to people all over the Kansas City metropolitan area whose lives have been touched by cancer.